On 16 Sep 08, at 21:50, info@auchgourishbotanicgarden.org wrote:
> Perhaps the most inconvenient and inappropriate example of a botanical name
> I have come across if that of Lilium pensylvanicum Ker-Gawler (1805) for a
> plant Ker-Gawler mistakenly took to have come from North America because
> Mark Catesby 'sent it' from there when in fact Catesby got it from a
> Russian in Alaska, its homeland in fact being central & eastern Russia...
To say nothing of a common garden & picnic pest in the Pac NW, the common
yellowjacket, Vespula pennsylvanica, the distribution of which is entirely
*west* of the Rocky Mountains.
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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate
on beautiful Vancouver Island
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